Image decoding apparatus, image encoding apparatus, and method and program for image decoding and encoding

• US 9,979,982 B2
• Filed: 02/14/2017
• Issued: 05/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kondo, Kenji
• Primary Examiner(s): Allison, Andrae S
• Application Number:
  US15/432,338
• Publication Number:
  US 20170164005A1
• Time in Patent Office: 462 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 9/004 Predictors, e.g. intraframe, interframe coding
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 9/007 Transform coding, e.g. discrete cosine transform
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/103 Selection of coding mode or of prediction mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/11 among a plurality of spatial predictive coding modes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/122 Selection of transform size, e.g. 8x8 or 2x4x8 DCT; Selection of sub-band transforms of varying structure or type
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/124 Quantisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/136 Incoming video signal characteristics or properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/14 Coding unit complexity, e.g. amount of activity or edge presence estimation H04N19/146 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/176 the region being a block, e.g. a macroblock
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/184 the unit being bits, e.g. of the compressed video stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/197 including determination of the initial value of an encoding parameter H04N19/56 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/44 Decoders specially adapted therefor, e.g. video decoders which are asymmetric with respect to the encoder
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/46 Embedding additional information in the video signal during the compression process H04N19/517, H04N19/68, H04N19/70 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 19/61 in combination with predictive coding

Abstract

An encoded bit stream is processed by a lossless decoding unit, an inverse quantization unit, and an inverse orthogonal transform unit in this order, to obtain orthogonally transformed coefficient data and encoding parameter information. The inverse orthogonal transform unit performs an inverse orthogonal transform on the coefficient data by using bases that are set beforehand in accordance with the locations of transform blocks in a macroblock indicated by the encoding parameter information. In this manner, prediction error data is obtained. An intra prediction unit generates predicted image data. An addition unit adds the predicted image data to the prediction error data, to decode image data. By using bases that are set in accordance with the locations of transform blocks, an optimum inverse orthogonal transform can be performed, and encoding efficiency can be increased.

Claims

1. An image decoding apparatus comprising:

processing circuitry configured to

receive encoding parameter information included in an encoding bit stream;

perform an inverse orthogonal transform based on a location of a transform block indicated by the encoding parameter information;

generate a prediction image data based on the encoding parameter information; and

decode an image data included in the encoding bit stream by adding the generated prediction image data to a prediction difference data obtained by performing the inverse orthogonal transform, to decode the image data,

wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to perform the inverse orthogonal transform by using a base set beforehand in accordance with the location of the transform block and a prediction mode indicated by the encoding parameter information, and

wherein, when the encoding parameter information indicates that the block contains a plurality of transform blocks, the processing circuitry is further configured to perform the inverse orthogonal transform by using a base on orthogonally transformed coefficient data of the lowest-frequency component coefficient data after an orthogonal transform of the respective transform blocks contained in the block, the base being set beforehand in accordance with the prediction mode.

2. The image decoding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to perform the determined inverse orthogonal transform by using a base being set beforehand in accordance with a location of the transform block in a block indicated by the encoding parameter information.

3. The image decoding apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the base used by the processing circuitry in the inverse orthogonal transform is an inverse matrix of a base used in the orthogonal transform of the prediction error data of each transform block.

4. The image decoding apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is further configured to perform a Karhunen-Loeve inverse transform using the base.

5. An image decoding method comprising:

receiving encoding parameter information included in an encoding bit stream;

performing an inverse orthogonal transform based on a location of a transform block indicated by the encoding parameter information;

generating a prediction image data based on the encoding parameter information;

decoding an image data included in the encoding bit stream by adding the generated prediction image data to a prediction difference data obtained by performing the inverse orthogonal transform, to decode the image data;

performing the inverse orthogonal transform by using a base set beforehand in accordance with the location of the transform block and a prediction mode indicated by the encoding parameter information; and

when the encoding parameter information indicates that the block contains a plurality of transform blocks, performing the inverse orthogonal transform by using a base on orthogonally transformed coefficient data of the lowest-frequency component coefficient data after an orthogonal transform of the respective transform blocks contained in the block, the base being set beforehand in accordance with the prediction mode.

6. The image decoding method according to claim 5, further comprising:

performing the determined inverse orthogonal transform by using a base being set beforehand in accordance with a location of the transform block in a block indicated by the encoding parameter information.

7. The image decoding method according to claim 6, wherein the base used in the inverse orthogonal transform is an inverse matrix of a base used in the orthogonal transform of the prediction error data of each transform block.

8. The image decoding method according to claim 5, further comprising:

performing a Karhunen-Loeve inverse transform using the base.